Accepting my failings

Can one be as much fun as two ?

Having purchased Creepy Cute whilst on holiday (holiday madness ?) I though I’d better learn how to crochet and have taken out from the library Learn to Crochet:Sally Harding.

The book is as helpful as it can be, but the problem is I just don’t understand diagrams – guess its a lawyer thing, we’re just better with words…

Casting on ie making a chain is ok – I understand that, I can do the first row, whether in a round or actual rows…its after that that things start to get a bit hazy and confused – ok part of this was because I kept forgetting to do “turning chains” – I also started to lose track of the number of stitches in a row, and when doing a round couldn’t work out where I’d started off from…

I am hoping that part of my problem is down to the yarn – first time I tried I used some of that awful sirdar cotton that I have left over – this lunchtimes effort has been with dishcloth cotton, which I am praying is causing me problems because its too thick for the needle (4mm) – its also splitting quite a lot…it could of course just be sheer incompetence on my part !

Its quite a short book, only 79 pages and I have it for 3 weeks – so I guess I perservere and see where I get to…if all else fails I guess I shall have to see if I can persuade Mum to give a tutorial, hopefully RSI is no bar to teaching someone !

5 thoughts on “Can one be as much fun as two ?”

Crochet Unravelled by Claire Bojczuk is my answer to crochet problems! It was recommended to me by my crochet tutor (2x 2hr sessions a while ago) and it has very clear diagrams with text that not only supports the text but can be used alone.

coool – will keep an eye out for it – 5 minutes with Mum has established what my problem is, but not how to solve it – well she showed me what I’m meant to be doing but I can’t quite remember what that was…

What was my problem ? I crochet like I’m knitting, albeit with 1 needle !